RESCUE WORKERS IN MOROCCO EDGE CLOSER TO BOY TRAPPED IN WELL

Five-year-old called Rayan fell and became trapped on Tuesday near hill town of Chefchaouen

Rescuers have dug to within a few metres of reaching a young boy who has been trapped for five days down a well in northern Morocco.

Workers with mechanical diggers have been trying round the clock to rescue five-year-old Rayan after he fell into a 32 metre (105ft) deep well in the hills near Chefchaouen on Tuesday.

“We have 2 metres more to dig to reach Rayan and we hope we will not encounter rocks,” lead rescuer Thamrani Abdelhadi told reporters at the site on Saturday afternoon.

He said it was difficult to determine the child’s condition because a camera that was dropped down the well shows him lying on his side, but he added: “We hope we will rescue him alive.”

It was also unclear how much longer the digging would take due to difficulties relating to rocks and the danger of landslides, he said.

Pictures on Moroccan media have shown Rayan huddled at the bottom of the disused well, which narrows as it descends from its 45cm (18in) opening, preventing rescuers from descending.

Rescue crews, who have dug almost all the way down using bulldozers and front-end loaders, expect the final 2 metres to be the most difficult due to the risk of landslides.

Having worked non-stop through the darkness under powerful floodlights, they are also digging a horizontal tunnel to reach the pocket where Rayan is, local authorities say.

There has been no information about the fate of the boy, but the more time that passes, the more fears arise over whether he will be recovered alive.

Overnight, crews manoeuvred a heavy pipe into position in the area.

“We’re almost there,” said one of the operation’s leaders, Abdesalam Makoudi, adding: “Tiredness is kicking in, but the whole rescue team is hanging on.”

The hilly region around Chefchaouen is bitterly cold in winter and although food has been lowered to Rayan, it was not clear whether he has eaten any. He has also been supplied with water and oxygen using a tube.

A helicopter was standing by to ferry Rayan to hospital.

“I keep up hope that my child will get out of the well alive,” Rayan’s father told public television 2M on Friday evening. “I thank everyone involved and those supporting us in Morocco and elsewhere.”

The boy’s mother told Moroccan media that Rayan had been playing nearby when he disappeared on Tuesday afternoon.

“The whole family went out to look for him then we realised that he’d fallen down the well,” she said.

Scores of townspeople and others have gathered to help and watch the rescue efforts. Nationwide, Moroccans have expressed their hopes for the boy’s survival, using the hashtag #SaveRayan, which has brought global attention to the rescue efforts.

“Rescuers are literally in the process of moving a mountain to save little Rayan. I hope that their efforts will not be in vain and that those who prayed for him will see their prayers answered,” one internet user wrote.

Source:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/05/rescue-workers-in-morocco-edge-closer-to-boy-trapped-in-well

If it was in Nigeria

My guy the story would have been super story
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Got bless us all

Maybe God help keep Ryan alive

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As time goes by, humans are becoming less and less empathetic. Today, we care about others much less than people did in the 1980s.

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If na my country

That boy is very lucky say no be buhari be him president.

This is the country that works

If it is in Nigeria, they will say wetin the boy find ho there, let him die na

As a father, this is terribly terribly heartbreaking.
I just cannot imagine it.

I really do hope the child is rescued alive.

Sane country. cux of one life. Come naija first make we test something

Beautiful.
Nigeria would've been better than most Oyinbo Countries. But the East is drawing us back.

Working system

ALLNIGERIANSMAD:
If it is in Nigeria, they will say wetin the boy find ho there, let him die na

lol. Problem no dey finish abeg

Why did they have to dig around the well, couldn't they have lowered a rope down with a machine, can someone with a better understanding explain pls

That is a working system. If this happened here, it'd take a month before the government approves the contract for rescue.

They should act first, we need the little boy alive. Hope while droping the camera, they also dropped food and water for the little boy

WiszyFraud:
Did you know??



As time goes by, humans are becoming less and less empathetic. Today, we care about others much less than people did in the 1980s.

Is this not a direct contradiction to the thread?

When Love for humanity brings human together to achieve a goal brings tears to My eyes everytime

May the boy be brought out alive.

I swear living in Nigeria is like a walking dead. I don't even imagine this efforts could happen in Nigeria. If you enter wahala for here you're on your own. E no go better for who prayed make naija own be like this. Abeg make all Nigerians and Africans get out and don't talk to me anymore please. We be fools and our country can never gets better because it's destined to be like this forever. I'm very frustrated and angry with this country right now.

GardenOfGod:

Source:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/05/rescue-workers-in-morocco-edge-closer-to-boy-trapped-in-well

See ordinary Morocco!!

If this type of energy is spend empathizing and loving one another, the world would be a better, if not the best place to live in.


May the effort of these passionate people not be wasted unto the demise of the boy. I pray he is brought up alive.

Buiild well with parapet.

My grandad had a well in his compound

1.The well had a parapet

2.The well was locked and sealed when not in use, and an adult had the key

3.No child was allowed near the well when the well was opened, except with an adult present, and no child was allowed to fetch water from the well, only an adult.(The only time I looked down the well as a child, one of my uncles was there, holding my hand, and of course when i spent weeks at my grandad's house, I was not allowed to fetch water from the well, not even to 'help' adult.)

The man avoided stories that touch as a result of his strict rules.

Prechgold1180:
If it was in Nigeria

My guy the story would have been super story
Meanwhile First to comment

Congratulations to all graduating auchi students
Both the drop out
The pretenders
Everyone congratulations

Happy birthday to my love
C ronaldo

Got bless us all

Congratulations broh i remember during my time in the great institution

shortIGBOman:
Beautiful.
Nigeria would've been better than most Oyinbo Countries. But the East is drawing us back.

No, this shows how careless and how bad the well builder was.

He sinks well, no parapet, no lock , no ways of making it childproof.

A simple parapet, with a locked entrance when not in use, and rayan would have still been playing with his mother ...and all this drilling won't have happened.

since the time they started trying to rescue this boy , estimate the civil servant terrorists in Nigeria must have killed 4000 people.
Sometimes you have to wonder if Nigerian people value other peoples lives more than their own.

I don't understand

See country ooh
Imagine, it’s Africa Oooh
If it’s Nigeria then the boy is dead already